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Open Gym
About Open Gym
The John M. Brown Community Center is available for Open Gym use during scheduled times throughout the week for Basketball, Volleyball and Pickleball indoor play. Open Gym passes are required (see fee info below). Open Gym hours are only available during certain times, so be sure to check the schedules below or call 919-249-3402 before arriving to confirm hours.
Open Gym Schedules
- February 2024 Open Gym Calendar
- March 2024 Open Gym Calendar
- Senior 55+ Pickleball Indoor Schedule (check current Senior Program Guide)
Pickleball Open Play
We offer pickleball indoor open play times for Seniors (ages 55+) several mornings a week. Check the current Senior Program Guide for up-to-date information on days and times. At this time we only have indoor pickleball available for seniors. The town has outdoor pickleball courts at various parks that are available on a first come first served basis to all ages.
Open Gym Passes
Open Gym passes may be purchased by Apex residents (resides within the corporate town limits) or non-residents. Passes include 10 visits for:
Apex Residents | Non-Residents |
Children (7 and under): Free | Children (7 and under): $5 |
Youth (8-17): $5 | Youth (8-17): $20 |
Adults (18-54): $10 | Adults (18-54): $30 |
Seniors (55+): Free | Seniors (55+): $20 |
Youth & Teens (Ages 8-17)
A parent / guardian must complete and sign the Open Gym Registration Form before a child can obtain an Open Gym Pass. Open Gym is an unsupervised, unstructured program. Participation is at your own risk. Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated.
Parent / guardian will be contacted if there are problems. Repeated disruptive behavior could result in the loss or suspension of an Open Gym Pass without refund.
- You can lose your membership if your card is used by anyone else
- Only times listed on the Open Gym Schedule are available for open play. This schedule is subject to change without notice
- Private Lessons, personal training, team practices, and group lessons are not permitted during Open Gym
- Individuals and groups are not permitted to use the Community Center for profit or personal gain
- Please share the courts and take turns, especially during crowded times. Exclusive games are not permitted.
- Children ages 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult (18+) at all times
- Absolutely no dunking or hanging on the rim.
- Absolutely no food, drink, or gum is permitted in the gym. Athletic shoes and appropriate gym attire must be worn at all times.
- No music allowed without approval from APRCR staff.
- Community Center staff reserves the right to ask users to move to side goals or use the curtain to separate the gym in order to accommodate as many users as possible.
- The use of equipment such as cones, agility ladders, garbage cans, chairs, etc. is prohibited during Open Gym.
- Horseplay, fighting, swearing, abusive language and/or destruction of town property are prohibited throughout Apex Community Center and will result in immediate dismissal. Anyone asked to leave will be suspended from the Community Center for a minimum of one week.
- Participation in Open Gym requires registration and participants must sign in and receive a wristband for each visit.
- You are encouraged to bring your own basketballs for Open Gym. The front desk will only have a few basketballs available for participants to use, and participants will need to present a photo ID (i.e.- a driver's license or an Open Gym card) in order to check out a basketball. Volleyballs will always be provided during scheduled volleyball open gym times and do not need to be brought in or checked out.
- Personal items may not be stored in locker facilities over night. Community Center personnel will remove all locks at the end of the day. The Town of Apex is not responsible for lost or stolen property.
- The Open Gym Schedules change frequently due to gym availability. Be sure to check the link above for the current schedule.
When 2 courts are available for either basketball or volleyball, 1 court may be designated as an adult court (ages 16 and older) and the other as a youth court (ages 15 and under).
There will be a sign in sheet at both courts. If pick-up games are being played, teams will be formed according to the sign-up sheet. Winners will stay on the court and will play the next team on the sign in sheet. Once a team loses and those players wish to play again, participants are required to place their name back on the sign in sheet.
If you want to use the court for casual practice, and others are waiting, then you will have 20 minutes once you have signed in.
Adults can use the youth court if no one is using it but once a youth user comes to use the court then all adults must move off of the court. The same rule will also apply for if youth are using the adult side.
John M. Brown Community Center
53 Hunter Street
Apex, NC 27502
Mon - Fri, 8am - 9pm
Sat, 9am - 6pm
Sun, 1pm - 6pm
(Closed Sundays Jun-Aug)
Phone: (919) 249-3402
Fax: (919) 249-3368


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Bill Gates has frugal tastes. Asked to name his luxuries, he lists DVDs, books and takeaway burgers. It is hard, however, to think that any fast-food outlet would get rich on Gates's custom. During a long list of engagements beginning well before dawn, he consumes nothing but cans of diet cola.
For America's wealthiest citizen, austerity is relative. The retinue of staff and the private jet hint at a fortune said to be approaching £40 billion. As he told pupils at a south London school he visited this week: "If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. Ninety-nine per cent of it will go."
In an era when the wealthiest are society's pariahs, the Microsoft founder has become the people's plutocrat. Although some diseases, such as malaria, remain rife, his charitable foundation and his lobbying have borne results. In the past year, not a single citizen in India contracted polio.
"People think aid is abstract and thousands of miles away. I go there and see it. I'm intent on making sure that my money gets to people who need it, and I come back and say it's working." This message has been heeded by "Cameron and George," who have promised to hit the recognised goal of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid.
Is he not disappointed that Mr Osborne will effectively be cutting the budget by more than £1.1 billion over three years, because the economy is shrinking? "I have nothing but praise for the UK. [The drop] is certainly unfortunate, but I can hardly complain about it. 0.7 per cent is the gold standard, and most countries aren't living up to that."
Should Britain's richest citizens follow his example? "Philanthropy should be voluntary." No one, he says, is going to take up giving "because someone scolded them or they heard Bill Gates say something mean. But I do think people are missing an opportunity to make an impact, learn a lot and be fulfilled."
Having persuaded almost 70 like-minded Americans, Warren Buffett included, to give up a large slice of their wealth, Gates would be happy to advise any Britons thinking of following suit. "We're looking for philanthropists to co-invest, so any advice we can give them [is on offer]."
Whether Britain's bonus beneficiaries will avail themselves of this service is questionable. Still, as Gates points out, there is always tax. "With deficits the way they are, the rich are going to have to pay more. Unfortunately, almost everyone's going to have to pay more, and it should fall more heavily on the rich… Just raising taxes on the rich won't solve the crisis, but it seems reasonable to people – and there's plenty of room to do that without creating disincentives or distortions."
The news that the mega-rich Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, pays 15 per cent tax "wasn't shocking at all. That's the US system. If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit."
Bill Gates moves seamlessly between worlds. His day in London started in the VIP suite of a television studio and shifted to a school assembly hall before he left for Davos, where yesterday he announced a new $750 million package to fight Aids, malaria and TB. Accustomed to morphing from the subsistence farms of Africa – the focus of his latest effort – to the salons of prime ministers, he does not see himself as a global power broker. "I hope they're having a good time up at the top table, but I doubt they're discussing diarrhoea and malaria."
Though always courteous, he has the inscrutable quality of the outsider. As a teenage geek in Seattle, he was entrusted with compiling class timetables on the ponderous school computer. At Harvard, he was the drop-out who founded a multi-billion dollar corporation, and at Microsoft, he was the pioneer in an uncharted techno-world.
One of the few people to understand his compulsions was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, who died of cancer in October. The two men's long and stormy relationship has been chronicled in Jobs's latest biography, but, until now, Gates has said little about their divisions - and their bonds.
"Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors. The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve's very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well. It's quite an achievement, and we enjoyed each [other's work]."
This tribute, part praise, part reminder of Gates's dominance, is more tactful than the comments Jobs made in his lifetime. "He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany." In Jobs's view, his rival was "unimaginative", "a bit narrow" and derivative. As he once told an interviewer, "He [Gates] would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram."
The atmosphere changed in 2007 when Gates left Microsoft to set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife. "Steve and I did an event together, and he couldn't have been nicer…I got a fair bit of time with him in his last year. Some months before Jobs died, Gates paid him a long visit. "We spent literally hours reminiscing and talking about the future." Later, with his old adversary's death imminent, he wrote to him. "I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know."
That last gesture was not, he says, conciliatory. "There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness." After Jobs's death, Gates received a phone call from his wife, Laurene. "She said; 'Look, this biography really doesn't paint a picture of the mutual respect you had.' And she said he'd appreciated my letter and kept it by his bed."
Bill Gates rarely talks in such human terms. As a mathematician, he prefers numbers to emotion, focusing on the billion people in desperate poverty and the money needed to help them survive and work towards prosperity. As someone on the front line of mortality, he has balanced his aims against his own lifespan and wealth. Asked about his goal by a pupil at the school he is visiting, he says: "I'm 56. Hopefully I'll live another 25 to 30 years to see [unnecessary] deaths drop to zero."
"It's not about legacy," he tells me. "I'd like to see it get done. That is my job." He has no expectation that his three children, who will inherit only a tiny fraction of his money, will follow him. "Our foundation won't last long beyond Melinda's and my lifetime. The resources will last about 20 years after whichever is the last of us to go. There is no family business, and my kids will make their own careers."
While he speculates that they will be "great doctors or great lawyers", he admires not only entrepreneurs but the market system. "Capitalism has worked phenomenally. Look at North Korea versus South Korea, or China before and after 1979. Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. We don't have to [ask] whether capitalism is wrong."
Though not especially religious, and far from pious ("People on the front line are the saints"), Bill Gates is driven on by faith. "I believed in the personal computer and I devoted my life to it," he says. "If you have a dream, and it comes true, it's a very cool thing." Now he extends the passion he once expended on enterprise to ending disease and starvation. The man who changed the way the rich world lives is equally determined to change the way in which the poor world dies.
Read Bill Gates's annual letter at gatesfoundation.org.

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Clinton Presses On With Israel-Hamas Truce Efforts
The U.S. secretary of state pressed on Wednesday with efforts to wring an elusive truce deal from Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers, after earlier attempts to end more than a week of fighting broke down amid a furious spasm of violence.
With thousands of Israeli ground troops massed on the Gaza border and awaiting a possible order to invade, Hillary Rodham Clinton joined other world diplomats in shuttling between Jerusalem, the West Bank and Cairo, trying to piece together a deal that would satisfy the two foes after a week of fighting and mounting casualties.
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday night, Clinton conferred with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Wednesday morning and was due to travel later to Cairo, which is mediating in the crisis.
The two sides had seemed on the brink of a deal Tuesday following a swirl of diplomatic activity also involving the U.N. chief and Egypt's president. But sticking points could not be resolved as talks - and violence - stretched into the night.
Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight, hitting government ministries, smuggling tunnels, a banker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office.
At least four strikes within seconds of each other pulverized a complex of government ministries the size of a city block, rattling nearby buildings and shattering surrounding windows. Hours later, clouds of acrid dust still hung over the area and smoke still rose from the rubble.
The impact of the blast demolished the nearby office of attorney Salem Dahdouh, who was searching through files buried in the debris.
"Where are human rights?" he asked, saying officials negotiating a cease-fire ought to see the devastation.
In downtown Gaza City, another strike leveled the empty, two-story home of a well-known banker and buried a police car parked nearby in rubble.
"This is an injustice carried out by the Israelis," said the house's caretaker, Mohammed Samara. "There were no resistance fighters here. We want to live in peace. Our children want to live in peace. We want to live like people in the rest of the world."
Medics said an area child was killed, raising the Palestinian death toll to at least 138. Five Israelis have also been killed by Palestinian rocket fire, which continued early Wednesday.
The Israeli military said its targets included the Ministry of Internal Security, which it says served as one of Hamas' main command and control centers, a military hideout used as a senior operatives' meeting place and a communications center.
Washington blames Hamas rocket fire for the outbreak of violence and has backed Israel's right to defend itself, but has cautioned that an Israeli ground invasion could send casualties soaring.
"In the days ahead, the United States will work with our partners here in Israel and across the region toward an outcome that bolsters security for the people of Israel, improves conditions for the people of Gaza and moves toward a comprehensive peace for all people of the region," she said Tuesday night in Jerusalem, speaking alongside Netanyahu.
About 60 demonstrators, riled by Washington's support for Israel, rallied in Ramallah as Clinton arrived for talks with Abbas. She left the city without comment.
While Abbas does not have any practical influence in Gaza, his West Bank government would be instrumental in implementing any new arrangements on the Gaza border that would be part of a cease-fire pact. Israel and Egypt slammed shut the border after the militant group seized the territory from Abbas in June 2007, hoping to disrupt Hamas rule. Both sides have since eased the restrictions, but many remain.
The U.S. considers Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide and other attacks, to be a terror group and does not meet with its officials.
Hamas official Izzat Risheq predicted a truce deal would be reached Wednesday, but the movement wouldn't discuss what the problems were.
Israeli media quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak as telling a closed meeting that Israel wanted a 24-hour test period of no rocket fire to see if Hamas could enforce a truce among its forces and other Gaza militant groups.
Palestinian officials briefed on the negotiations said Hamas wanted assurances of a comprehensive deal that included new arrangements for prying open Gaza's heavily restricted borders - and were resisting Israeli proposals for a phased agreement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Israel's outspoken foreign minister, meanwhile, expressed what many in Israel suspect - that ahead of January elections, the country's leaders do not want to get mired in a ground operation.
"There is no point embarking on such a dramatic move two months before elections after we didn't do it for four years," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the Ynet web site Tuesday. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev had no comment on Lieberman's remarks.
Israel launched the offensive on Nov. 14 following months of rocket salvoes from the territory into southern Israel, which has endured attacks for the past 13 years. For its opening salvo, it assassinated Hamas' military chief, then followed up by bombarding the militant-run territory to its south with more than 1,500 airstrikes that initially targeted rocket launchers and weapons storage sites, then widened to include wanted militants and symbols of Hamas power.
Defying Israel's claims that they've been badly battered, the militants have so far fired more than 1,400 rockets at Israel, drawing upon newly developed and smuggled weapons to extend the reach of their attacks toward Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel's largest cities. The number of Israelis within rocket range leapt to 3.5 million from 1 million.
Dozens of civilians are among the more than 130 Palestinians killed in a week of fighting. Four Israeli civilians and a soldier have been killed by rocket fire - a toll possibly kept down by a U.S.-funded rocket defense system that has shot down hundreds of Gaza projectiles.
In a meeting with Netanyahu, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon condemned Palestinian rocket attacks, but urged Israel to show "maximum restraint."
"Further escalation benefits no one," he said before returning to Egypt, which is mediating the truce talks.
Israel demands an end to rocket fire from Gaza and a halt to weapons smuggling into the territory through tunnels under the border with Egypt. It also wants international guarantees that Hamas will not rearm or use Egypt's Sinai region, which abuts both Gaza and southern Israel, to attack Israelis.
Hamas wants Israel to halt all attacks on Gaza and lift tight restrictions on trade and movement in and out of the territory that have been in place since it seized the territory. Israel has rejected such demands in the past.
Egypt's new Islamist government is playing a key role in the negotiations to broker a deal between the two sides, which shun each other. It is also expected to play a pivotal role in maintaining any deal, performing a difficult balancing act as an ideological ally of Hamas, recipient of U.S. aid and one of just two of Israel's Arab neighbors to have made peace with Israel.
This program aired on November 21, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.


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Evert, Davenport guest star on 'CSI'
Chris Evert and Lindsay Davenport are taking a swing at acting as guest stars on ''CSI.'' Some script revisions were in order, though, when the retired tennis champions shot their scenes.
Evert, Davenport and tennis commentator Justin Gimelstob all play themselves on Wednesday's episode of the CBS series starring Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue, a friend of Evert's.
According to Evert, the original script called for Davenport to find the body of a female pro player that sets the episode in motion.
Evert recalled thinking: ''Oh my God, Lindsay has a scene where she has to act.''
''She never likes attention,'' Evert said.
Davenport read the script and said, ''I had a panic attack. I was like, `There's no way.'''
By the time Evert arrived at Calabasas Tennis Club for filming, Gimelstob was being fingered as the suspect.
''Most things that come to me that are outside my comfort zone are things that I don't want to do,'' Davenport said. ''You either have that personality or you don't.''
Gimelstob egged both Evert and Davenport on, although Evert didn't need too much persuasion. She hosted ''Saturday Night Live'' in 1989 and played a commentator in the movie ''Wimbledon.''
Shue is a big tennis fan and urged the ''CSI'' writers to pen an episode involving the sport. She's played in Evert's charity event in Florida and the Hall of Famer said the actress' game makes her ''one of the best women celebrities I've ever seen.''
So who flubbed their lines?
''Oh my Lord, that's not a nice question,'' Evert said. ''We came prepared. I don't know if we were any good. Justin probably took it more seriously than we did.''
Evert said acting is relaxed compared to playing pro tennis.
''If you flub up your lines, you can do it five times. In tennis, there's no dress rehearsal. You play your match and that's it,'' the 18-time major champion said.
Shue's character interrogates Evert, and the two trade shots on the court in a scene that took a good part of their 10-hour day to set up and shoot. Cameras filmed each woman's side of the court at least 10 times and then pulled back to film the entire court.
''It was just like commentating. Like we do at Wimbledon, it's hurry up and wait,'' Evert said. ''The first year I did commentating it was like, `Whoa, this is a lot of doing nothing.'''
Davenport felt more comfortable once Gimelstob was taking the heat on camera.
''It was great to be able to play a tennis commentator on a show that I've loved and watched for years,'' she said.
Both Davenport and Evert have three children. Davenport's son and two daughters are 5 and under, while Evert's three sons are 16, 18 and 21.
Evert's sons all played high school tennis, and Davenport's son plays a couple times a week. But don't look for any of them on the pro tours.
''They're all like their father,'' Evert said, referring to ex-husband and former Olympic skier Andy Mill. ''They like the extreme sports.''


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The most difficult day of Barack Obama's presidency was Friday, when he got the news of the shooting that ravaged Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the president told Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Sunday in the hours before he spoke at an interfaith vigil to commemorate those killed. And as Obama mourned the dead and exhorted the rest of the country to remember them, he chastised the nation:
>Can we truly say as a nation that we're meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say we're doing enough to keep our children, all of them, safe from harm? Can we claim as a nation that we're all together there letting them know they're loved and teaching them to love one another in return. Can we say we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives with happiness and with purpose. I've been reflecting on this the last few days and if we're honest with ourselves the answer is no. We're not doing enough. And we will have to change.
The president went on to promise he would lead that action, but he did not specify exactly what form it would take.
In the coming weeks I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Because what choice do we have? We can't accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say we're powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?
Obama's was the culminating speech in an evening of prayer and remembrance that included fifteen faith and political leaders from Newtown and surrounding areas. Gathered in an auditorium at Newtown High School, the largely stoic crowd was dotted with children, whose parents held them as moments of silence came between prayers. Outside the auditorium people gathered to publicly support those who lost loved ones in Friday's massacre and in private, Obama met with the families of the victims. A photograph of him holding the granddaughter of deceased Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung circulated widely on Twitter.
In addition to his call to action in preventing future tragedies (one arguably at odds with his record on gun control, the Guardian argues), Obama pondered life as a parent — "the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time" — and he urged Americans to come together as a community. "There's only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have, for our children, for our families, for each other." Then he slowly read the names of the twenty children killed.


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Runaway mobster finally brought to trial
For more than a decade, Jeffrey John Shaw was seen as an eccentric man
amongst his neighbors in the cattle community of Marsing, Idaho -- a
rancher with a thick Boston accent trying to blend in by wearing bib
overalls and a straw hat.
During his time as an Idaho rancher, the raven-haired, goateed man
raised cows and two kids and became trusted enough to run the town's
irrigation system, according to court records.
But in February 2011, as he was set to purchase hay for his 12-acre
ranch, police swooped in and exposed the rancher as a wanted mobster on
the lam for 17 years.
In a Boston federal courtroom today, the goatee was gone. So were the
overalls. And a jury was picked for the trial for Shaw under his real
name: Enrico Ponzo.
Ponzo, prosecutors said, was no cattle rancher. In fact, he is
suspected, according to federal charges, of slaughtering men rather than
cows as a feared Mafia enforcer for the powerful Patriarca Crime
Family, which in the 1990s, ran all of the New England rackets from
Hanover Street in Boston to Atwells Avenue in Providence.
Prosecutors said Ponzo was part of a particularly violent faction
desperate to oust the family's bosses to take control of the family and
was willing to commit murder in order to win that bloody internecine
struggle for power.
"Defendant Enrico M. Ponzo and his co-conspirators utilized violence and
the threat of violence to further their aims, and committed murders and
attempted murders to remove competitors and avenge acts committed by
their rivals," prosecutors said in court records.
Ponzo had been missing since 1994, just after his crime family rivals
took out a contract hit on his life and missed, authorities said,
shooting instead an innocent victim, Michael Romano, as he changed a
tire at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outside of Boston. After that, Ponzo
In 1997, Ponzo was listed alongside 14 other mob associates as part of a
sweeping federal indictment charging them with a plethora of murders --
including the shooting of Frances "Cadillac Frank" Salemme.
It was one of the most storied hit attempts in Boston history. Salemme
was ambushed and shot as he left a pancake house on Route 1 in Saugus
but survived and eventually became the New England crime family boss.
Among the witnesses for the government, according to court records, are
Michael Romano Sr. -- whose son was shot in a case of mistaken identity
by the hitmen gunning for Ponzo -- and Mark Rossetti, who was unmasked
as a longtime FBI informant during his state trial on drug and
racketeering charges last year.
Rossetti is suspected of killing the younger Romano while working as an
FBI informant, authorities said. After the Romano hit in 1994, his
sidekick David Clark shot and killed Massachusetts State Trooper Mark
Charbonnier, according to South Boston Congressman Stephen Lynch and
state prosecutors. The Rossetti case led Lynch to file federal
legislation for the FBI to change the way it handles FBI informants.
The Ponzo trial comes just months after the trial of James "Whitey"
Bulger, the notorious Boston wiseguy who worked alongside the FBI to
take down members of the Patriarca family -- some of whom are expected
to testify in this trial.


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The Annual Tax Sale is an auctioned sale of delinquent property taxes. Bidders have to pay a registration fee in order to buy properties at tax sale. They purchase the taxes for what is owing and then the hold a lien against the property. It could be for one dollar or thousands of dollars. The tax sale is every third Monday in June. There are two kinds of certificates. There is a regular certificate that is purchased the first time at tax sale. There is also a public bid (PB), taxes that are one year delinquent and no one purchased at the tax sale. Then it was offered again at the next year's tax sale and then it was offered and purchased. If the tax sale is a regular certificate, the certificate holder has to wait a minimum of one year and nine months before they can start the process of taking deed to the property. They also have up to three years from the date that it was purchased at tax sale to start the process of taking deed to the property. If it goes past the three years since the date of purchase of the tax sale, then they can no longer take deed to the property. If the tax sale is a PB, the tax sale purchaser only has to wait nine months before starting the process of taking deed to the property. They have all the way up to three to start the process of taking deed to the property. If it goes past the three years since the date of purchase of the tax sale, then they can no longer take deed to the property Taking deed to a property by the tax sale process, it is a ninety day process. The property owner can still redeem the taxes during this time. Once the ninety days are up, the property owner will no longer be able to redeem and loses their property for the percentage of the tax sale certificate. Tax sales incur penalty or interest at 2% each month that it goes unredeemed. Once a property is at tax sale, any other delinquent subsequent taxes that still owe after Nov 15th and May 15th can be purchased by the tax sale certificate holder and added to the tax sale amount without having to wait until the 3rd Monday in June. Tax sales are redeemed with certified funds (cash, cashier's check, or money order) and an Affidavit of Redemption of a Parcel sold for Taxes form.
You can pay either the full year in September or just the September installment.
Only one billing is sent out for your tax bill. The tax bill has two coupons at the bottom. Each coupon is for one half of the tax bill.If you have bought or sold property, be sure to know if the buyer or seller is responsible for paying the taxes on each parcel. This is something that would have been discussed in your closing agreement.
You can pay property taxes by mail (please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope if you would like a receipt), in person, over the phone or online at: www.iowataxandtags.org
The Linn County Treasurer does not keep record of mortgage companies payment responsibility and if they should be making your property tax payment. You will want to contact your mortgage company if there is any question about whether they are going to make that payment or if you need to.
The homestead credits and Military Exemptions are done with the Assessor's office. If you live inside the City Limits of Cedar Rapids, then you would want to talk with the City of Cedar Rapids Assessor ( 319-286-5888). If you live outside of Cedar Rapids, then you want to talk to the Linn County Assessor (319-892-5220). They will be able to give you the deadline for the credits and exemptions and when to have them forms filed. Click the link below to see where the homestead and military credit are on the tax bills.
All mailing address changes for real estate bills are done with the Linn County Auditor (319-892-5300).
Please make checks or money orders payable to Linn County Treasurer.


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